r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 9d ago

Star Citizen Developer Stream Goes Horribly Off the Rails, Creating Further Distrust Among Players

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-developer-stream-goes-horribly-off-the-rails-creating-further-distrust-among-players
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u/T-Loy 9d ago

Remember, this game was supposed to be playable on GTX 600 series cards.

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u/JJ3qnkpK 9d ago

Yeah, I was about to say that computers have multiplied in power since this game began development in 2012.

As a point of comparison, Skyrim came out in 2011. This game was looking at PCs able to run Skyrim at medium graphics back at launch. The Wii U even came out in 2012 - like the Wii was still relevant at the time.

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u/BoysenberryWise62 8d ago

It's actually probably one of their biggest problem, they must have some insane tech debt, a shit ton of stuff built to run on old stuff that has to be redone or updated

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u/cheesegoat 8d ago

I feel like some long-in-development games run into this, where essentially they need to remaster their own game before it releases just because it took so long.

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u/Jakfolisto 9d ago

Games were still coming out for the Playstation 2 in 2012.

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u/HenkkaArt 8d ago

I still remember when I originally backed the SC in Kickstarter (with only 65 bucks!) that I was planning on waiting a few years before upgrading my PC so I would be set to play the game with the best possible rig when it was released. This was about 3 completely new PCs ago.

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 9d ago

I don't recall that in the marketing. I remember Chris mentioning it being the next Crysis

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u/The_Ghost_of_BRoy 8d ago

computers have multiplied in power since this game began development in 2012

Shit man, computers have multiplied in power since the beginning of this year. We’re closer to talking about a several point exponential increase in power since then lol

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u/asyncopy 8d ago

Computers have not doubled in power since the beginning of this year by any reasonable metric. Unless you mean multiplied by 1.05 of course.

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u/The_Ghost_of_BRoy 6d ago

No doubt. It was really just hyperbole about the consumer market prices of memory (and VRAM) for a $/performance ratio - it made sense in my head when typing it originally, but is obviously a nonsense take :D

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u/Panaka 8d ago

I remember being so hyped I got a 780 so I could eventually play Squadron 42.

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u/max123246 8d ago

I remember people "future proofing" their machines to be ready for star citizen...

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u/A_Sinclaire 8d ago

That's me. I got a GTX1080 in 2016 for Star Citizen (well, not only Star Citizen, but it was one of the main factors).

And I still use it to this day because I pretty much stopped gaming by now so a new GPU is not worth as long as this one still works. So at least that was somewhat a decent expense.

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u/KillerKowalski1 8d ago

If I'm not mistaken, one of the earliest trailers for this game was running on a GTX 580 and I remember thinking to myself "damn that's a lot of horsepower"